The grand-prize winners of the 2012 Dallas Symphonic Festival recently showcased their remarkable talent in a concert at Southern Methodist University. They performed with the Meadows Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor Paul Phillips.

Pearl Rhee, a freshman at Clark High School in Plano, won the Junior Wind Division. A flutist, she performed a concerto by Mozart. The grand-prize winner of the strings division, violinist Christine Wu of Plano West Senior High, played a concerto by Niccolo Paganini. Flutist Angie Kang, a sophomore at Greenhill School and winner of the wind division, played a concerto by Carl Reinecke. The final musician was pianist Lewis Warren Jr., a home-schooled student who played a concerto by Sergei Rachmaninoff.

All four students received standing ovations. More than 200 students competed in the festival, which was held by the Dallas Music Teachers Association. Visit dallasmta.org.

Violinist Cho-Liang Lin and pianist Jon Kimura Parker have been soloists with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and many major orchestras around the world. They are faculty members at Rice University. They will be joined by two other faculty members — violinist Alyosia Friedmann and cellist Desmond Hoebig — in two Chamber Music International concerts. The first will be at 8 p.m. Friday at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Cathedral, 5100 Ross Ave. in Dallas. The second will be at 8 p.m. Saturday at St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church, 1220 W. Belt Line Road in Richardson. Call 972-385-7267 or visit cmi-now.org.

India forum

The inaugural event of the India Enterprise Forum will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. The forum was founded to share knowledge on modern India. Speakers at its first conference include Ambassador Lakshmi Puri, a United Nations assistant secretary-general and member of the Indian Foreign Service, and Ambassador Hardeep Puri, India’s permanent representative to the U.N. The cost is $200. Visit ief.utdallas.edu.

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Thursday

Chris Soentpiet, author of Coolies, will speak to children and their families at 5 p.m. at the Diamond Club at Rangers Ballpark as part of the Texas Rangers Storybook Series. texasrangers.com.

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